BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC,MEN AT WAR: Night Landing

War Department files finally opened up. Washington told how U.S. Colonel
Philip Cochran and his second in command, onetime A.V.G. Fighter Pilot
John R. Alison, landed "up to a division" of Wingate's Raiders deep
behind Japanese lines in Burma, in one of the great Allied airborne
assaults of the war.

That weird first night, 27 big C-47 transports hauled their double tows
of gliders up to a rough, gullied clearing in the jungle. The glider
pilots, Colonel Alison among the first, cut loose, hoped for the best
as they headed down for the clearing....